The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Dreams are representations of unfulfilled wishes and repressed feeling. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I think that it is a good plan to bear in mind that people were in the habit of dreaming before there… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
And in the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as a civilizing factor in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state of things which is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love.… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Unexpected emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction;… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We hate the criminal and deal severely with him, because we view in his deeds as in a distorting mirror our own… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Ko postavlja pitanje o smislu zivota,s njegovim libidom nije nesto u redu.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We like to forget that in fact everything in our life is chance, from our genesis out of the encounter of spermatozoon and egg… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It seems to be my fate to discover only the obvious: that children have sexual feelings, which every nurse maid knows; and that the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
